School Bus Driver Bags Life Sentence For Defiling 4-Year-Old Pupil

School Bus Driver Bags Life Sentence For Defiling 4-Year-Old Pupil

An Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court on Thursday sentenced a 39-year-old driver, Abiodun Matthew, to life imprisonment for defiling a pupil of University of Lagos (UNILAG) Women Society School.  Matthew, who was charged with sexual assault by penetration,...
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Ex-Bank PHB MD Jailed For N25.7b Fraud, Wife Acquitted

Ex-Bank PHB MD Jailed For N25.7b Fraud, Wife Acquitted

An Ikeja High Court on Wednesday night sentenced Francis Atuche, a former Managing Director of the defunct Bank PHB (now Keystone Bank), to six years’ imprisonment for defrauding the bank of N25.7 billion.  In a 12-hour judgment, Justice Lateefa Okunnu....
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VW pleads guilty to three felonies in deal to settle U.S. emissions case

VW pleads guilty to three felonies in deal to settle U.S. emissions case

(Auto News) The largest automaker in the world is now officially a felon in the United States, but its sentencing will have to wait. Volkswagen Group pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court to three felonies under a plea agreement:...
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A bill to criminalise activities of CDAs in Edo underway, says Obaseki

A bill to criminalise activities of CDAs in Edo underway, says Obaseki

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki has disclosed that  a bill to criminalize the illegal activities of Community Development Associations (CDAs) in the state was in the offing. The governor made the disclosure when the Benin Monarch, Oba Ewuare II paid him.....
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Lagos records 246 murder cases, 162 rape  in one year

Lagos records 246 murder cases, 162 rape in one year

Not less than 246 persons were murdered in Lagos between December 2015 and November 2016. Also within the period, 542 vehicles were stolen and 486 armed robbery suspects arrested, 162 rape/defilement cases reported  and 51 kidnapped cases were recorded while....
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Egypt arrests ‘organ trafficking ring’

Egypt arrests ‘organ trafficking ring’

(BBC) Egyptian authorities have arrested doctors, nurses and professors suspected of being involved in an international organ trafficking ring.  The arrests of at least 25 people on Tuesday also included organ buyers and middlemen, the country’s Admini...
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Man charged in New York, New Jersey bombings

Man charged in New York, New Jersey bombings

(Chicago Tribune) Ahmad Khan Rahami vowed to martyr himself rather than be caught after setting off explosives in New York and New Jersey, and he’d hoped in a handwritten journal championing jihad that “the sounds of bombs will be heard...
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Plagiarism: Buhari to sanction aides

Plagiarism: Buhari to sanction aides

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Lagarde to face trial over alleged fraud

Lagarde to face trial over alleged fraud

The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, will go to trial December 12 in a long-running fraud case. A French court set the date Monday after rejecting an appeal. Lagarde is accused of intervening in a legal dispute...
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Customs FOU impounds N250 M contrabands in two months

Customs FOU impounds N250 M contrabands in two months

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone ‘A’ Ikeja  Lagos within the period of July-August 2016 intensified its  anti-smuggling operations by intercepting various contrabands with a  duty paid value (DPV) of 186,911,500.00 ...
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Peterside condemns assassination of Ken Atsuwete

Peterside condemns assassination of Ken Atsuwete

Dr. Dakuku Peterside has condemned the “barbaric and gruesome assassination” of Barrister Ken Atsuwete in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. The Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) who was reacting to t...
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NHRC indicts Iwu, Uduaghan, others of violence

NHRC indicts Iwu, Uduaghan, others of violence

A report put together by  National Human Right Commission (NHRC) has indicted 118 person of allegedly committing various offences  including violence.   According to the report, those indcted alledgly committed the offence during the 2007 and 2011 general e...
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Munich shooting: ‘Attacker researched rampage killings’

Munich shooting: ‘Attacker researched rampage killings’

(CNN)—The teen gunman who killed nine people in a shooting rampage in Munich on Friday was a mentally troubled individual who had extensively researched spree killings and had no apparent links to ISIS, police said. Speaking at a press conference...
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German police kill Afghan teen who slashed passengers on train

German police kill Afghan teen who slashed passengers on train

A teenage Afghan migrant armed with an ax and a knife attacked passengers aboard a regional train in southern Germany on Monday night, injuring four people before he was shot and killed by police as he fled, authorities said. Wuerzburg police said...
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